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About Faith Vote
Your source on political action, voter info & legislation
Faith Vote Columbus is a non-partisan coalition of religious congregations, neighborhood associations, and labor unions committed to:
- Injecting issues of poverty and social justice into state and national elections
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Increasing voter turnout in urban precincts. Protecting the right to vote.
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EVENTS:
VOTER EDUCATION
& PROTECTION |
Check the walk schedule for a list of voter education and protection walk and phone bank dates and locations. LEARN MORE
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CONTACT INFO |
1400 King Ave. #27
Columbus OH 43212
Michael Cole: 614-599-5534
mcole@thothonline.com
Ari Lipman: 617-852-6405
ari_lipman@gmail.com
Fax: 614-487-8676
www.ohio-iaf.org |
Recruiting and training volunteers to engage in neighbor-to-neighbor non-partisan voter education campaigns.
- Maximizing the political power of disenfranchised communities.
Faith Vote Columbus is an affiliate of the national Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization founded in 1940 that has
supported the national living wage movement, universal health care and protecting the right to vote.
Faith Vote 2008 Goals:
- Recruit 500 volunteers
to participate in
neighborhood
canvases for five
months leading up to
the November 2008
elections.
- Increase voter turnout
by 12,500 in lowperforming
wards and
precincts in Linden,
the Near East Side, the
South Side, Hilltop,
Weinland Park,
Berwyn East, and East
Columbus.
- Hold candidates who
are running for state
and national office
accountable to a
locally-generated
platform on issues of
poverty and social
justice.
The Ohio International Areas Foundation website stated, "We believe that people in poor communities and disenfranchised neighborhoods have just as great a capacity and appetite for civic participation and voting as do their more affluent counterparts if… if elections are made meaningful by candidates who address their primary self-interests, and if they are invited into a process that values their time, intelligence, skill, and interests."
Statewide, Faith Vote activists want to increase Ohio's voter turnout in 2008 by 50,000 and "reframe the debate of the election to include urban, industrial, and poverty issues."
See Related
Voter Registration Walks and Events
Website of the Ohio Industrial Areas Foundation - Local chapters listed below.
Faith Vote Columbus
Dayton Votes
Reclaim Lorain
Faith Vote Columbus Brochure (PDF)
About Voter Registration
ABout Absent / Early Voting
Archived Articles
Faith Vote Columbus invites union members to participate in voter registration walks (May 21, 2008)
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